Dragan Boscovic is a research professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, & Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), as well as Research Director of AZ Blockchain Applied Research Center, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, mediaX, at Stanford University. Dr. Boscovic also leads ASU’s Blockchain Research Lab, where his team’s mission is to advance the research and development of blockchain-based technologies for use in business, finance, economics, mathematics, computer science, and all other areas of potential impact. He holds a Ph.D. in EE and CS, Numerical Electromagnetic Modeling from University of Bath, United Kingdom (1991). He has 25 years of high tech experience acquired in an international set up (i.e. UK, France, China, USA) and is uniquely positioned to help data-driven technical advances within today’s global data-intensive technology arena. He is a lateral thinker with broad exposure to a wide range of scientific methods and business practices and has a proven track record in conceiving strategies and managing development, investment and innovation efforts as related to advanced data analysis services, ML/AI applications, and mobile and IoT solutions and platforms.